Uncategorized shows up next to page in Google results

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  hiekevanhoogdalem · Member · Oct 7, 2014 at 10:44 am

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  One of my students created the blog http://www.platformbouwinvest.nl. When you Google ‘platform bouwinvest’ you get a result with ‘>> Uncategorized’. I don’t understand why this is added. I made a screenshot, but I can’t add it here. I uploaded it to my Google Drive, but I don’t know how to share it with staff. Maybe the url is okay? See below: [removed]

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  hiekevanhoogdalem · Member · Oct 7, 2014 at 10:46 am

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  Ai – that’s not the url of the image, but of my entire folder. Please delete! How can I edit my message above?!

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Oct 10, 2014 at 5:37 pm

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  Hi there!

  I removed the link for you. Although, it would direct the user the their own Google Docs folder, not specifically yours, so no worries. :)

  It looks like the website platformbouwinvest.nl is not hosted here at WordPress.com but is a self hosted WordPress.org site. For reference, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are different:

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  I would suggest installing Jetpack and setting up Google Webmaster Tools. You can also check out the WordPress.org support documents about how to set up search engine updates.

  http://wordpress.org/support/

  http://codex.wordpress.org/

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  hiekevanhoogdalem · Member · Oct 10, 2014 at 6:28 pm

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  Hi shawnajroberts,

  Thanks for your reply. I know the difference between org and com, but I was sure this person used *.com, because when he’s logged in, you see platformbouwinvest.wordpress.com. At least I thought so, remembering the last session we had. But now I viewed the source code and I see *.org indeed.

  Well, that makes the answer quite easy: install a plugin :-)

  Thanks again and sorry for bothering.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Oct 10, 2014 at 6:29 pm

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  No worries! Glad you sorted it out.

  Let me know if i can help with anything else. :)

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  hiekevanhoogdalem · Member · Oct 10, 2014 at 6:30 pm

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  Oh, wait, one more thing:

  I would suggest installing Jetpack and setting up Google Webmaster Tools. You can also check out the WordPress.org support documents about how to set up search engine updates.

  What do you think causes that problem? Or: hence this suggestion?

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  hiekevanhoogdalem · Member · Oct 10, 2014 at 6:30 pm

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  Haha, we were posting at the same time :-)

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Oct 10, 2014 at 6:44 pm

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  It sounds like your web changes aren’t being sent to Google very quickly. Granted, search engines can take a while to update listings if you do alert them to changes, but Jetpack will help with that distribution.

  And through Google Webmaster Tools you can manually ask Google to crawl your site or certain pages on your site.

  Hope this helps! :)

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  hiekevanhoogdalem · Member · Oct 10, 2014 at 7:28 pm

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  Yes, it certainly does. Thanks! I’ll pass it on to the website owner.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Oct 10, 2014 at 7:42 pm

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  Great! Happy I could help. :)

  Let me know if there’s anything else.